Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-05-16

us No lUOtllSulS, bul lIuScuN SuiSAiltl
and mightier than RistOri or Edwin Booth
ever enacted. No light, no fire, no bread,
no hope. Shivering in the cold, they have
bad no food for twenty-iOur hours. You
say: ''Why don't they beg They do,
hut they get nothing. You say: why
don't they deliver themselves over to the
almshouse ?" All! you would not ask that
if you ever heard
THE BITTER CRY
OF man or child when told he must 20
to the almshOuSe.
"Ow you say, they are vicious poor,
and, therefore, they do not deserve our
sympathy Are they vicious? SO much
more need they your pity. The Christian
poor, God helps them. Through
their night there twiukies the round,
merry star OF hope, and
through the broken window pane they see
CRYSTALS of heaven; but the vicious poor,
they are more to be pitied. Their last
light has gone out. Gou excuse yourself
from helping them by saying they are 81
bad, ney brought this trouble on them
selves. | reply, where give ten prayers
for the innocent who are suffering ] will
give twenty prayers for the guilty who are
suffering.
The fisherman, when he sees n vessel
dashing into the breakers, comes out from
his hut and wraps the warmest tlannels
around those who are most chilled and
most bruised and most battered in the
wreck; and | want you 10 know that these
vicious poor have had two shipwrecks-
shipwreck of the body, shipwreck of the
soul-shipwreck for time, shipwreck for
eternity. Pity, by all means, the innO-
cent who are suffering, but pity more the
guilty.
Pass out through the alley. Open the
door 90" you say, lit is locked No
it is not locked. 1t has never been locked.
No burglar would lie tempted to 90 in
there to steal anything. The door is never
locked. Only broken chair stands
against the door. Shove it back. Go in.
Strike match. Now, look. BeastlineSs
and rags. See those glaring eyeballs. BE
careful now what you say. Do not utter
any insult, no not utter any suspicion, II
you value your life. What is that red
mark on the wall? 1t is the mark of u
murderer's hand!
Look at those two eyes rising up out of
the darkness and out from the straw III
the corner, coming toward yOu, and as
they come near you, your light goes out.
Strike another match. All. this is babe,
not like those beautiful children presented
in baptism. This little one never smiled,
it will never smile. 4 flower flung on an
lan ly
Shepherd, fold that little one in Thy arms.
Wrap around you your shawl or your
coat tighter, for the cold wind sweeps
Though.
STRIKE ANOTHER MATCH.
All! is it possible that that young wOman's 5
scared and bruised face ever was looked
into by maternal tenderness? Utter no
scOrn. Utter no harsh word. No ray OF
hope has dawned on that brow for many a
year. No ray OF hope ever will dawn On
that brow. But the light has gone out. Do
not strike another light. 1t would be a
mockery to kindle another light in such a
place ~ that Pass out and pass down the
street Our cities OF BROOKLYN and New
York and all our great cities are full "I
such homes, and the worst time the third
watch of the night.
DO Won knOwit is in this third watch OF
the night that criminals do their worst
work? 1t il the criminals watch.
At hall-past eight o'clock you
will find them in the drinking
saloon, but toward twelve O'Clock
they 20 to their garrcts, they get
out their tools, then they start on the
street. Watching on either side for the
police, they 20 to their work Of darkness.
This is n burglar, and the false key will
soon touch the store lock. This Is IN i'll
cendiary, and before morning there will he
light on the sky, and u cry OF "Firc!
fire. This is an assassin, and tomorrow
morning there will be a dead body in one
of the vacant lots. During the daytime
these villains in our cities lounge about,
some asleep and some awake, but when the
third watch of the night arrives their eye
keen, their brain cool, their arm strong,
their foot fleet to fly OF pursue, they are
ready.
Many oftheSe pOOrcrcatures were brought
up in that way They were
BORN IN 4 THIEVES GARRET.
Their childish toy was a burglars dark
lantern. The first thing they remember
was their mother bandaging the brow ot
their father, struck by the police club.
They began by robbing boys pockets, and
now they have come to dig the underground
passage TO the cellar OF the bank, and are
preparing to blast the gOld-yault.
Just so long as there are neglected chill
dren of the street Just so long We Will have
these desperadoes Someone, wishing to
make good Christian point and to quote
Il passage of Scripture, expecting to get a
Scriptural passage in answer, said 10 one
of these poor lads, cast ont and wretched
"WhenIyour fatherand mother iorSake You,
who then will take yOu up?, and the boy
said: 1.-The perlice, the perlice!'
In the third watch of the night gambling
does lis worst work. What though the
hours be slipping away, and though the
wife he waiting in the Cheerless home;
Stir up the fire. Bring on more drinks.
Put up more stakes. That commercial
house that only little while
ago put ont sign of cOpartner-
ship will this winter he wrecked on a
gambler IdDlt. utlt VIII bt man d
money till that will spring leak. A mem
her of Congress gamhlcd with member
elect and won one hundred and twenty
thousand dollars. The old way of getting
a fortune is so slow. The old way Of get
ting fortune is so stupid. Come, let us
toss up and see who shall have it. And 50
the work goes on, from the wheeling
wretches pitching pennies in rum grocery
up to the millionaire gambler in the stock
market
In the third watch of the night, pass
down the streets OF these cities, and the
sharp keen stroke of the ball on the bill
lard table. At these places merchant
princes dismount, and Legislators, tired OF
making laws. take a respite in breaking
them. All classes of people are robbed hy
this crime-the importer of foreign silks
and the dealer in Chatham street pocket
handkerchiefs The clerks OF the store take
a hand after the shutters are put up, and
the officers of the court while away their
time while the jury is out.
In Baden Baden, when that city was the
GREATEST or ALL GAMBLING PLACES
on earth, it was no unusual thing the
next morning in the woods around about
the city, to find the suspended bodies OF
suicides Whatever he the splendor OF
surroundings there Is no excuse for this